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Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. I'm sure that wasn't your intent, but we got a religious flamewar out of this. Those get predictably worse as they go along, so it's important not to seed them.

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41099534.

Oh good lord --

1. I'm sorry, I'll try to avoid this happening again.

2. I just saw an opportunity to get a quick answer to a simple question. It never occurred to me that HN wasn't better than this :-(

Yes. He mentioned the controversy and the arguments (and his biases) but refrains from preaching or privileging one side over the other, instead electing to express joy and wonder.

I was pretty impressed with his approach, so I'll link the relevant section below (last ~3m). I'd argue abstaining from viewing (and commenting as much) is evangelizing more than Destin here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPSm9gJkPxU&t=1581

There's a bit of preaching at the end. What a turn off

It is fairly difficult to be perfectly objective about everything we discuss. We all bring our own bias and experiences to just about everything we do and say.

In Dustin’s case, he is being open about his background and perspective. Isn’t that more commendable than trying to feign objectivity?

Clearly you can agree or disagree but being annoyed at his transparency seems to neglect consideration for the alternative.

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